Stephen Willats
Art Society Feedback
Anja Casser, Badischer Kunstverein, Philipp Ziegler (Eds.)
Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, 2010
576 pages

The publication can be seen as the first overriding, retrospective and until now comprehensive compilation of works and writings by Stephen Willats.
The first part contains numerous illustrations of works, including works not yet published by Willats and text contributions of renowned authors who have for years been closely involved with the artist, among others Ute Meta Bauer, Emily Pethik, Brigitte Franzen, Tom Holert und Andrew Wilson.
The second part collects important writings of Stephen Willats, which have been inspected in the archive of the artist, transcribed for the first time and now presented in combination with the accompanying black-and-white illustrations. This part opens up new and until now unpublished insights into the text works of Stephen Willats.

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Mexico 68/CU, Heidrun Holzfeind.

This two-volume book combines two art projects by Heidrun Holzfeind.

Mexico 68 investigates the impact of the ’68 student movement on Mexican society, politics and culture in general, and on the lives of the participants in particular.
Conducted almost forty years after the fact, the 18 interviews with activists offer a diverse range of personal accounts, political and social analysis as well as reflections on the events that took place during this mythic year.

CU (Mexico City, August 2006) – is a personal portrait of ‘Ciudad Universitaria’, the National University’s Mexico City campus. The carefully composed shots of exterior and interior views, architectural details, and eerily unpopulated hallways, class rooms and walkways highlight Holzfeind’s interest in aging modernist structures, the conceptualization of the campus as a modern ‘city’ and the use of functionality in the Mexican modernization project.

With texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina and Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz.

Published by Kodoji Press.

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Twice a year Pyramid Power showcases the best in international contemporary art, fashion and literature, focusing on projects that show criticality and rigor, and placing emerging artists on an equal footing with their more established counterparts. Pyramid Power’s brazenly eccentric perspective on the art world is visually embodied in the balance it strikes between form and content, the magazine’s bold yet considered presentation accentuates the richness of its artwork and writing.

Pyramid Power
Issue #8
96 Pages
Edition of 1,600
Fall/Winter 2010

D 12€

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Contributors :
Isabelle Pauwels & Rachelle Sawatsky
Peter Schuyff
Valentina Liernur
Tiziana La Melia
Neil Campbell
Kate Craig
& Molly Sigalet
Eileen Myles
Michael Turner
Michele Di Menna
Judith Hopf
& Ruairiadh O’Connell
Trevor Mahovsky
Jess Wiesner

Berlin – Paris 2011
28.01.2011 – 5.02.2011
Blondies. Olaf Nicolai
+ Motto Selection

Librairie Yvon Lambert
108, rue Vieille-du-Temple
75003 Paris
T. +33(0)142 710933
Mon – Sat. 10am – 7pm

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Die Book-Launch “Bored at the Museum, Bored at the Studio” findet anlässlich der Ausstellung “Post Parallelism” von Navid Nuur in der Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (Eröffnung 11. Feburar 2010, 18 Uhr; bis 17. April) statt. Weitere Informationen sind zu finden auf:

Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen
“Bored at the Museum, Bored at the Studio” erscheint bei:

Mousse Magazine and Publishing

Thanks to:

Maximage

Rear Window – Erik van der Weijde

“The wife is at work, the son is at school and i’m stuck in the new apartment. With a cup of coffee and my video camera. Wow, those dogs are so cool…”

2010
24 Pages
14cm x 20cm
b/w digital
numbered 2nd edition of 100
Published by Café Royal Books

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Angst #2

ANGST is the magazine from publisher/editor Fiona Bryson. The second issue of the A5-format magazine contains articles by Joseph Szabo, Hanayo, Hugh Holland, Marina Faust, Miles Standish, Hannes Schmidt, Sophie-Therese Trenka-Dalton, Leigh Ledare, Cat Stevenes and Mike Brodie.

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“The book does not really have a “theme” per se, but if there is any underlying thread it is the
fact that all of these images were taken over the past spring/summer. Alex’s were all taken in
the UK and mine were all taken in the US at the same time. We have been pen pals for quite
some time now and feel as though our photographic styles mesh well – we’ve wanted to do a
collaboration for a few years!” David Geeting.

2010
44pages
140mm x 200mm
colour numbered edition of 100
Published by Café Royal Books

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Momentary Monument – Lara Favaretto

Momentary Monument is Turin-based artist Lara Favaretto’s first artist’s book, an extension of her project of the same title, which was shown as part of the exhibition “Making Worlds / Fare Mondi” in the 53rd Venice Biennial, curated by Daniel Birnbaum. Including texts by Daniel Birnbaum and Chris Sharp, this publication expands the project shown at the Venice Biennial. It is divided into three parts: the first is a prologue, explaining how a swamp is created; the central part tells the stories of twenty disappeared individuals, characters such as Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader, who was lost in sea in 1975; and an epilogue describing the change in the surrounding landscape of the swamp, which doesn’t quite look
the same.

Lara Favaretto (born Treviso, Italy, 1973) lives and works in Turin. Her works have been featured in the Sydney, Sharjah and Venice Biennials, the Torino Triennial, and exhibited in Castello di Rivoli, MOCA Los Angeles, and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Edited by Paolo Caffoni
Hardcover, 15 × 21 cm
English text
384 pages

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Komma (after Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun), Antonia Hirsh
Includes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva.

The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Antonia Hirsch’s book is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo’s seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a modified facsimile of the original book’s first edition, the project re-imagines Trumbo’s novel through its syntactical idiosyncrasy, the omission of all commas.

The word “comma” is derived from the Greek komma, meaning “something cut off,” reflecting eerily on the plight of the fictional Johnny—a young American soldier who has been brutally mutilated as a result of combat.

Addressing issues of silencing, censorship, and instrumentalization, the project is refracted through the original novel’s historical context and Trumbo’s personal history. Komma proposes to represent the suppressed or “negative space” of the novel by isolating the text’s missing commas, rendering visible a subtext that the author made traceable only through an absence.

2011, English
14 x 20.3 cm, 316 + 16-page pamphlet
ISBN: 978-0-9738133-9-5
Published by Fillip Editions, an imprint of Fillip, Vancouver, specializing in books of critical writing and artists’ publications.

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